Floricultural and Botaiiical Notices. 415 



SACCOLA^BIUM (named by Blume, from saccus, a bag, and labium, a lip.) 



guttitum Lindl. Spotted Saccolabium. A native of the East Indies ; blossoming at the 

 Kew gardens for the first time in Europe in 1840. Flowers delicate white, spotted with pur- 

 ple. 



" Nothing can excel the dehcacy and texture of the 

 flowers," says Dr. Lindley; and Dr. Roxburgh observes, 

 " that they are not inferior in beauty to any in the whole 

 tribe of Orchideae." {Curtis' s Bot. Mag., No. 4108.) 



MILTONM 



Clowcsu' Lindl. (LerL Orchid.) A very beautiful orchidaceous plant, with spreading, 

 lanceolate petals and sepals of an orange color, with broad, red-brown, transverse bands. 



Detected by Mr. Gardner in the Organ Nitus, and blos- 

 somed at the Kew Gardens, in October, 1843. (lb. No. 

 4109.) 



LEPA'NTHES (named by Swartz, from lepis, a scale, and anthos, a flower..') 

 sanguinea Blood-colored Scalcflower. 



A native of the high mountains of Jamaica, very small, 

 and covering the bark of trees like little scales: a botanical 

 curiosity rather than of floricultural interest. {lb. No. 

 4112.) 



BegomkcecH, 



BEGO N/.4 



Meyerii Wr. JMeyer'a Begonia. 



A handsome, tall growing species, with almost woody 

 stems and rather large white flowers, but of the origin of 

 which, nothing more is known except that it was received 

 from the BerUn garden, and quoted in Slendel's ^^ Nornen- 

 clature'' ed. 2, as of the " Hort. Berol." {lb. New Series, 

 No. 4100.) 



RM^dce«3. 



ERI0STE>M0N 



buxifolium Sijn. Boxleaved Eriost^mon. A handsome shrub with leaves somewhat like 

 those of box, and large, showy flowers, blossoming early in the spring. 



" Deserves a place in every greenhouse." A native of 

 New Holland and extremely handsome, {lb. No. 4101.) 



ProteacecB. 



DRYA'.NDRvJ 



formosa Splendid Dryandra. A tree about fourteen feet high, raised from seeds; native 

 of Southwest Australia 



A splendid species, deemed worthy of a figure from the 

 pencil of Mr. Bauer, and published in the Liiuioian Trans- 

 actions, Vol. X. t. 3, {Curtis' s Bot. Mag. Aug. 1844.) The 

 Proteaceaj constitute some of the most striking ornaments of 

 our greenhouses, and this under consideration, judging from 

 the figure, is greatly desirable. 



